Bremen

…of the Europa and the Bremen. But by the end of 1929 the Great Depression had begun; it made transatlantic passage a luxury that fewer and fewer could afford and rendered immigration to the United States impractical.

…the interiors of the steamship Bremen (1929) and the airship Hindenburg (1931–35), and in the 1930s Gropius protégé Carl August Bembé designed motorboats for Maybach, a company that built internal-combustion engines for airplanes and boats and automobiles for the German car manufacturers Opel and Adler.

…the famous luxury ocean liner Bremen (launched 1929) as well as the interior of the historic airship Hindenburg (1931–35), destroyed in an explosion over Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. For the former he designed luxurious yet conservatively modern environments. For the latter he created simple, minimally Modernist furnishings…